The Syndicate Group

Established in 2017 and headquartered in Los Angeles, The Syndicate Group facilitates faster startup growth by connecting them with exclusive investment opportunities through its channel partners.

Chad Cardenas

Founder, CEO

25 past transactions

Veza

Venture Round in 2023
Veza is the data security platform that helps users use and share their data safely. It makes it easy to understand, manage, and control who can and should take what action on what data. It organizes authorization metadata across identity providers, data systems, cloud service providers, and applications, all to address the toughest data security challenges of the modern era. The company is funded by top-tier investors including Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Blackstone, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures.

Grip Security

Series B in 2023
Grip Security offers a SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP) solution that provides comprehensive visibility across an enterprise's entire SaaS portfolio. It accurately identifies known and unknown applications, users, and interactions within minutes, enabling businesses to modernize their security architecture and embrace a business-led IT strategy securely.

Symmetry Systems

Series B in 2023
Symmetry Systems, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in data security and privacy solutions. Established in 2015, the company offers a platform tailored to address modern data security challenges by providing organizations with comprehensive visibility into their data assets. Symmetry’s platform assists in tracking data access and usage, thereby safeguarding against misuse, insider threats, and cyberattacks. It accommodates both structured and unstructured data across major cloud services, SaaS platforms, and on-premise databases. The platform operates as a read-only service, inheriting existing security and compliance controls, making it suitable for highly regulated environments. Its advanced AI capabilities equip organizations to manage data security risks, ensure compliance, and respond to threats effectively. Symmetry's innovations are trusted by leading financial service providers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies. The company has roots in the Spark Research Lab at UT Austin and has received recognition as a "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner.

Abnormal Security

Venture Round in 2023
Abnormal Security Corporation is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in cloud-based email security solutions for Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite. Founded in 2018, the company provides a comprehensive platform designed to protect enterprises from targeted email attacks. Utilizing a data science approach, Abnormal Security offers features such as inbound email protection, detection of email account compromises, and response capabilities. Its technology includes Abnormal Behavior Technology, which models identities of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships, and analyzes email content to prevent threats like credential phishing, internal phishing, employee impersonation, and invoice fraud. The company primarily serves industries including financial services, healthcare, and oil, gas, and utilities, aiming to mitigate risks related to account takeovers and financial losses.

Grip Security

Venture Round in 2023
Grip Security offers a SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP) solution that provides comprehensive visibility across an enterprise's entire SaaS portfolio. It accurately identifies known and unknown applications, users, and interactions within minutes, enabling businesses to modernize their security architecture and embrace a business-led IT strategy securely.

AppOmni

Series C in 2022
AppOmni Inc. is a technology company specializing in security and management solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Bruno, California, with an additional office in Carbondale, Colorado, AppOmni offers a platform that enables enterprises to safeguard their cloud data. The platform performs in-depth scans of APIs, security controls, and configuration settings to identify and rectify risky configurations, improper access controls, and potential data exposures. It provides users with a comprehensive dashboard that offers visibility into the state of their cloud applications, highlights deviations from intended business practices, and allows for verification of application functionality and security. AppOmni's innovative approach to data access management and security is supported by a leadership team with extensive experience in the SaaS and cybersecurity sectors. The company has received recognition for its contributions to cybersecurity, being named in various industry lists as a notable player in the field.

Drata

Series C in 2022
Drata is a Trust Management Platform based in San Diego, California, founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz. The company specializes in security compliance automation, assisting organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with various standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, and NIST CSF. Drata's platform offers continuous, automated monitoring and evidence collection, significantly reducing the time and costs associated with annual audits. By providing actionable insights, reports, alerts, and seamless SaaS integrations, Drata enables enterprises to build trust with their users and partners while facilitating secure business growth.

oak9

Series A in 2022
Oak9 is a company specializing in cloud native security solutions. It focuses on integrating security directly into the application design process, allowing developers to maintain fast development cycles while ensuring robust security measures are in place. Oak9's Security as Code platform dynamically secures Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deploys cloud workloads automatically. This approach enables businesses to simplify their application security by providing pre-built building blocks that support various architectures across different cloud providers, ensuring both security and compliance from the outset.

Spectro Cloud

Series B in 2022
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a software company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in Kubernetes management. Founded in 2019, it offers a Cloud-as-a-Service platform designed to facilitate the deployment and management of Kubernetes across various environments, including public clouds, private clouds, and bare metal setups. The company's Palette platform provides comprehensive control over the Kubernetes lifecycle, catering to the needs of Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams. It supports both virtual machine and container workloads, allowing organizations to manage complex Kubernetes environments with ease. The platform includes features for compliance, security, and health monitoring of clusters, empowering IT teams to deliver tailored Kubernetes stacks and tools to developers. Spectro Cloud is recognized as a leader in the industry, earning accolades such as being named a Gartner Cool Vendor and receiving recognition in GigaOm's 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

Noname Security

Series C in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling enterprises to manage and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. Noname Security's platform offers real-time protection against data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption, all without the need for agents or modifications to existing networks. The solutions include capabilities for detection, prevention, discovery, and classification, providing deeper visibility and robust security compared to traditional API gateways and load balancers.

ThoughtSpot

Series F in 2021
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

Noname Security

Series B in 2021
Noname Security is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in providing security solutions for application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling enterprises to manage and secure both managed and unmanaged APIs. Noname Security's platform offers real-time protection against data leakage, authorization issues, abuse, misuse, and data corruption, all without the need for agents or modifications to existing networks. The solutions include capabilities for detection, prevention, discovery, and classification, providing deeper visibility and robust security compared to traditional API gateways and load balancers.

VAST Data

Series D in 2021
VAST Data, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Jose, California, the company offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel’s Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. VAST Data's solutions cater to various sectors, including animation and visual effects, deep learning, life sciences, media and broadcasting, and enterprise backup and recovery. The platform is designed to enhance productivity, streamline data management, and accelerate time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, making it particularly valuable for AI-driven organizations. Founded in 2016, VAST Data has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the data infrastructure market.

SecurityScorecard

Series E in 2021
SecurityScorecard, Inc., founded in 2013 by Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, is a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings and continuous monitoring services. The company's platform assesses the cybersecurity strength of third-party vendors and businesses, offering solutions like ThreatMarket, a cloud-based vulnerability search engine, and Score Planner for remediation paths. SecurityScorecard serves Fortune 1000 organizations worldwide, providing tools for vendor risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. Its patented technology rates over a million companies continuously, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. The company is based in New York, New York.

Valtix

Series A in 2021
Valtix Inc. is a software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in cloud network security solutions. Founded in 2018, Valtix offers a multi-cloud network security platform that simplifies the security of public cloud applications. The platform automatically discovers applications and allows administrators to implement deep inspection policies quickly, catering to the needs of DevOps teams. This approach enables security teams to deploy an auto-scaling security service efficiently, avoiding the complexity and high costs associated with managing multiple vendor appliances. Valtix's solutions support various cloud architectures, providing flexibility from secure isolated environments to centralized security models, thereby helping cloud teams meet stringent security requirements effectively.

Synack

Series D in 2020
Synack offers a crowdsourced security platform that combines global ethical hacker talent with proprietary scanning technology. It provides continuous penetration testing, vulnerability management, and application security solutions to protect organizations' digital assets.

VAST Data

Series C in 2020
VAST Data, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Jose, California, the company offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel’s Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. VAST Data's solutions cater to various sectors, including animation and visual effects, deep learning, life sciences, media and broadcasting, and enterprise backup and recovery. The platform is designed to enhance productivity, streamline data management, and accelerate time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, making it particularly valuable for AI-driven organizations. Founded in 2016, VAST Data has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the data infrastructure market.

Cohesity

Series E in 2020
Cohesity develops hyper-converged secondary storage solutions that consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data assets of large organizations. Its platform, Cohesity DataPlatform, converges data protection infrastructure including backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, it offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution for monitoring and managing secondary data and applications.

Harness

Series B in 2020
Harness is a software company that provides a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform designed to automate and streamline the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the platform offers AI‑driven pipeline automation, real‑time delivery analytics, automated verification, intelligent testing, security orchestration, and cloud cost management. It supports modern cloud environments, containers, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, enabling engineering and DevOps teams to accelerate deployment cycles, reduce manual effort, and improve software reliability. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on simplifying the process of moving code from artifact to production.

BigPanda

Series C in 2019
BigPanda operates a data science platform that centralizes and correlates IT alerts from diverse sources. Its platform transforms voluminous daily IT alerts into actionable insights, enabling IT teams to detect and resolve issues efficiently. Serving various industries, BigPanda was founded in 2012.

Trifacta

Series E in 2019
Trifacta is a data engineering cloud platform that enables data wrangling, preparation, quality assurance, and automated data pipelines. It offers AI-assisted, self-service data transformation and collaborative tooling with universal connectivity to access data from any source for any application. The platform helps analysts and data professionals evaluate, correct, and validate data quality, accelerate transformation, and automate pipelines at scale. Used across industries worldwide, thousands of users at more than 10,000 companies leverage Trifacta to prepare data for analytics, visualization, and downstream systems.

ThoughtSpot

Series E in 2019
ThoughtSpot provides an AI-native intelligence platform that empowers enterprises to explore any data, ask questions, and uncover actionable insights. It offers intuitive natural language search, enabling users to generate answers from business data at every point of decision-making. ThoughtSpot serves various industries, with clients including NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One, and Huel.

Bitglass

Series D in 2019
Bitglass, Inc. is an information technology company that specializes in providing security solutions for sensitive data across cloud and mobile platforms while maintaining employee privacy. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Bitglass offers a comprehensive cloud security platform that integrates a cloud access security broker, a secure web gateway, and zero-trust network access. This platform enables enterprises to move to SaaS-based and mobile environments securely, delivering real-time end-to-end data protection. Bitglass's solutions allow organizations to track confidential files, monitor for suspicious behavior, and receive alerts regarding policy violations and data leakage, ensuring robust security for all interactions across devices. The company also has regional offices in Toronto, Canada.

VAST Data

Series B in 2019
VAST Data, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing innovative data storage solutions. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Jose, California, the company offers a universal storage platform that utilizes Intel’s Optane SSDs as a cache for data stored on quad-level cell (QLC) SSDs. VAST Data's solutions cater to various sectors, including animation and visual effects, deep learning, life sciences, media and broadcasting, and enterprise backup and recovery. The platform is designed to enhance productivity, streamline data management, and accelerate time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, making it particularly valuable for AI-driven organizations. Founded in 2016, VAST Data has rapidly established itself as a leading player in the data infrastructure market.

Cohesity

Series D in 2018
Cohesity develops hyper-converged secondary storage solutions that consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data assets of large organizations. Its platform, Cohesity DataPlatform, converges data protection infrastructure including backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, it offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution for monitoring and managing secondary data and applications.
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